When it comes to displays, dynamic contrast ratio is the new megapixels: basically, a ridiculous, overblown metric that doesn’t really give any real indication to a consumer about how good the resulting image they’ll get will be. We posted a good explanation here on why you shouldn’t trust dynamic contrast ratios, if you’re interested.

Regardless, Acer’s latest unveiling of three new LCD monitors — the 20-inch S201HL, the 21.5 inch S211HL and the 23-inch S231HL — boast ridiculously high dynamic contrast ratios… so ridiculous that we can’t help but worry that the number is actually hiding some pretty bad performance.

How high 12,000,000:1. That’s just nutty.

Otherwise, what we’re looking at are LED backlit panels with an Energy Star ration of five, a five millisecond response time, 250 nits of brightness and support for up to 16.7 million colors. The largest monitors support full 1080p, and connections include VGA, DVI and, on the 23-inch, HDMI.

Interested? Check one out in the store first — that dynamic contrast ratio is ridiculous — and then expect to plunk dfown between $169.99 and $269.99 for one of the three.